This aspect of animated nature, in which man is nothing, has something in it strange and sad.... Here, in a fertile country, adorned with eternal verdure, we seek in vain the traces of the power of man; we seem to be transported into a world different from that which gave us birth. Alexander Von Humboldt
I love, because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My love is dependent on my state of being. So whether the other person changes, becomes different, friend turns into a foe, does not matter, because my love was never dependent on...
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Osho
If other people do not understand our behavior–so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being "asocial" or "irrational" in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and...
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Erich Fromm
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.
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Parker J. Palmer
Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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Marcus Aurelius
Every being, created by God and unspoiled by man, is perfect, strictly defined and autonomous, entirely complete and at the same time with a built-in ability to grow and develop. This is the essence of its dignity and holiness. It is not an embodiment of...
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Danail Hristov
More Quotes By Alexander Von Humboldt
The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world.
The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.
While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of men. There are nations more susceptible of cultivation, more highly civilized, more ennobled by mental cultivation than others–but none in themselves...
I could not possibly have been placed in circumstances more highly favorable for study and exploration than those which I now enjoy. I am free from the distractions constantly arising in civilized life from social claims. Nature offers unceasingly the most novel and fascinating objects...
